Obama’s Ominous FDR Precedent

Jonathan Tobin, CommentaryPolls have consistently shown that far more Americans still blame George W. Bush for the country&rsquo;s economic difficulties than those who were prepared to place responsibility on the man who has been president for the last few years. That fact, along with an economy that wasn&rsquo;t very good but still not as terrible as many thought it might be, was enough to re-elect Barack Obama earlier this month. In doing so, Obama became the first president to successfully run for a second term, while blaming his predecessor for his own failures, since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who buried…